RTI Wiki is an editorial initiative of BigHelpers — a small Indian civic-tech studio that builds free, open tools for citizens. BigHelpers also runs the parent BigHelpers helpline, the Indian Constitution explainer site, and a handful of public-interest dashboards. RTI Wiki is the largest single project under that umbrella and operates with full editorial independence.
We chose to build RTI Wiki because despite RTI being one of India’s most powerful citizen rights, almost everything written about it online is either paid (filing-as-a-service vendors), incomplete (legacy 2005-era pages), or wrong (AI-generated fluff). We wanted a single up-to-date, trustworthy, free reference — in plain language, citing the Act, with working tools that draft your application for you.
The infrastructure (servers, domain, AI tooling) is paid for by BigHelpers. There is no investor, no government grant, and no political affiliation. If you want to support the work, the simplest thing is to share a guide that helped you.
One-line: RTI Wiki is an independent, non-commercial 2026 reference for India's Right to Information Act, 2005, run by a small editorial team and supported by reader contributions. We publish guides, tools and datasets so any Indian citizen can file an RTI without paying a service fee.
RTI Wiki is India's working reference for the Right to Information Act, 2005. We publish:
RTI Wiki is run by an independent editorial team. We do not disclose individual identities of all editors due to the sensitive nature of some RTI activism work, but the lead editorial board is publicly named on the editorial board page.
Editorial decisions are made independently of any commercial, political or governmental interest. Our editorial policy is public.
RTI Wiki sustains operations via:
We do not accept payment for editorial coverage, link placements, or favourable treatment of any service. Our editorial policy forbids quid-pro-quo arrangements.
Every claim on RTI Wiki traces to:
See our methodology page for sourcing standards, fact-checking protocol, and AI-content disclosure.
We correct errors. If you find one, file a correction request — typically resolved within 48 hours. All non-trivial corrections are logged publicly.
Public mentions of RTI Wiki across journalism, academic research, and government training material are listed at cited-by.
We display a green Verified badge at the top of every editorial article to indicate it has been reviewed by our editorial team within the last 12 months. The full date of last review is visible at the bottom of each article.
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Last reviewed: 5 May 2026 — RTI Wiki editorial team.